I also don't understand it. The firmware is Chinese for sure: if I delete the "temp" folder containing the extracted image and execute the following commands I get a working image "temp.dav":
If I now add the further step to replace the "IEfile.tar.gz" (even if I just unpack and repack the file) in the temp directory before executing the second command, the TFTP Update will stop at "Completed file [C:\test\digicap.dav] transmit" and the "Device[192.0.0.64] system update completed!" message will never show up.
Here's the modified v5.3 CN file, throw that in your "/temp" directory you're using, run hiktool create and see if that works. If it does, double check what you're doing to re-make that file. If it doesn't - something else at fault here; my hiktools is "05r" - perhaps there's a bug in your release?
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Hi link is not working can you pelase upload again modified iefile.tar.gz ?